Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 100, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 March 1915 — Page 2

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THE JASPER COUNTY DEMOCRAT F. E. BABCOCK, IDITOH AND PUBLISHER. OFFICIAL DEMOCRATIC PAPER OF JASPER COUNTY Long Distance Telephones. Office 315 Residence 311 Entered as Second-Class Mail Matter June 8. IPOS, at the postortice at Rensselaer Indiana, under the- Act of March 3, IS 1 9. . Published Wednesday and Saturday. Wednesday Issue 4 pages; Saturday Issue 8 pages. —ADVERTISING RATES—DISPLAY 12><cinch DISPLAY [special position] .. 15c inch READERS [per line first insertion] ,5c READERS [per line add. Insertions] 3c WANT ADS—One cent per word each insertion; minimum, 25c. Special price if run one or more months. Cash must accompany order unless advertiser has an open account. CARDS OF THANKS—Not-to exceed ten lines, 50 c. Cash with Order. ACCOUNTS—AII due and payable the first of the month following publication, except Want Ads. and Cards of Thanks, which are cash with the order for same. NO ADVERTISEMENT ACCEPTED FOR FIRST PAGE. The Democrat was established in April, 1898, and has a large circulation in both Jasper and surrounding counties. It is all home print, standard width 13 ems; 6-column quarto, and is published twice-a-week, Wednesday’s and Saturday’s, reaching all parts of county on rural routes on day of publication. A network of -rural mail routes covers practically every section of Jasper county, which is the second largest county in Indiana in area, and is a splendid stock and agricultural county. RENSSELAER, its county seat, is located 73 miles southeast of Chicago, on the Monon, and 14 passenger trains arrive and depart from this station each day. Rensselaer has a population of 2,500; its principal business streets are lighted with boulevard lights, and we have more miles of paved and macadam streets and cement sidewalks than any city of like size in the state. It has four large brick school buildings, five churches, two newspapers, a fine municipal water, light and power plant, flouring mill, three modern garages, three lumber yards, five coal yards, and practically all lines of other business are represented here. The county has over 200 miles' of improved macadam roads, and a. network of stone roads extend out from Rensselaer in every direction. We are on the direct automobile route between Chicago and Indianapolis and many thousands of tourists pass through our city during the touring season.

WEDNESDAY, M’CH 24, 1915

New Castle Democrat: One of the doubtful pieces of legislation was the pension law for public school teachers. The law would have been all right had it not been for the clause allowing funds to be taken from the public treasury to make up any deficits. The theory of civil pensions is all wrong and should not be encouraged. But the teachers of Indiana had the largest, the best organized and the most persistent lobby of any interest that cgjne.be> fore the legislature. Right here The Times desires to state that the teachers of New Castle gave notice early in the session that they did not want the pension law. There could be no objections to the law if it did lot propose to take money from the school funds. The day may come vhen it will become burdensome to he taxpayers of the state.

PERILOUS TIMES FOR THE POLITICAL GANGSTERS.

The trial of the Terre Haute political bosses and ward heelers, now going on in the federal court at Indianapolis, has been a revelation to the people of the entire country, and that such things- could take place in a civilized community is almost beyond belief. ITie by-partisan political machine in Terre Haute apparently run things with a high hand. The Donn M. Roberts gang and their henchmen, as shown ,bv the evidence so far produced, openly defied the law and did everything but commit murder to tain their ends. Having all the machinery of the courts in their hands, they had no fear of prosecution, not anticipating for one moment that the federal government would take a hand in the matter. One witness testified Saturday that he had voted 22 times at the last election and v; - ; paid :<! lor each vote except one, where he failed to get his “card” to present at one of the paymasters’ offices—usually a saloom— to cash in. This witness was one of tlte 80 or more of the indicted men who have made,a complete breast of their guilt. The evidence has shown that in one precinct containing only about 400 voters, 711 votes were cast. From one saloon alone 121 voters were registered as it being their place of residence. One woman testified thtrt-at her home there were but two voters, her husband and one son. The. records show ihat 24 voters registered from this house. Others registered troth vacant lots, and notwithstanding all this, election returns were held off in some of the precincts to find out how many votes were needed to elect the gang ticket so that the necessary number might be added.

It is interesting to note in connection with the prosecutions of the Terre Haute gang of political freebooters that it has been brough, about through exposures made by the Indianapolis News, which has also been responsible for exposing other political crookedness that has resulted in grand jury indictments, and that the gang of machine politicians at Indianapolis and elsewhere over the state, have most bitterly condemned the News. It will be re-, membered that during the last campaign, our own democratic district chairman, “Boss” Murphy, who is a pastmaster in machine politics, went up and down this district denouncthe Indianapolis News, while drawing $6,000 per year as a member of the public service commission, and whose services, be they worth little or much,’ beJvnged to the taxpayers and citizens of Indiana. Murphy has been very friendly with some of the bunch who are now fighting to keep out of the federal prison, and it possibly pains him exceedingly to see them brought to justice. The democratic party in Indiana, as The Democrat has frequently stated, must purge itself of the Taggarts’, the Fairbanks’, the Roberts’, the Murphys’ and air the gang of boss politicians before it can hope to win another victory in this state

Lyceum Course Dates. April 7.—Bargelt & Co.

GETTING THE HABIT.

Farmers and townspeople all over the country are rapidly adopting the new policy of using writing paper and envelopes with their names and addresses neatly printed therdbn. It has many advantages. It prevents the numerous errors in the spelling of names, insures correctness of address, and guarantees the prompt return of your letter in the event of non-delivery. It is no more expensive than the buying of stationery in small lots in the bld ’ way, and adds a distinctive air of respectability and refinement to every home. It is a good thing, and has come to stay—and grow.

EDITORIAL PARAGRAPHS.

Everybody fights but Uncle. Vera Cruz is on the map again. Say little, think much, and you will be heard when you do speak. The greatest puzzle of the century is, “How many presidents has Mexico?” The store that never advertises is easily recognized by its stock of cobwebs. Work will fill the stomach, bqt more work will fill both stomach and pocketbook. Step lively! Our latest cable from abroad is to the effect that marriageable men are commanding a premium. “What is international law?” inquires a local reader of the war news. Nothing, brother, quite nothing.

“Civilization is slipping backwards,” avers an exchqgfige. Slipping! Zounds!' It’s a full blown slide. Germany is to grow potatoes along the right of way of railroads. In this country “the railroads would hog all of the potats. W hen this war is . over we may have to revise our immigration laws in order to check the inrush of marriageable maidens from abroad. There’s a deal of peace talk floating around in this country, but- apparently pur voices fail to carry across the blue expanse of the brimy deep.

If the rest of the European countries get the itch and jump into the scrap, we won’t have to bother about the immigration question for the next few years. A noted writer is searching for a farmer who says “By Heck.” Not guilty around here, brother. Farmers here are all bloated plutocrats and have us mere mortals on the run. ■ American women are wearing military frocks this season,, and American men are trying tp steer as clear of European “fashions” as honor and common sense will permit. W'hen you see a young blood racing down the street with wildness in his eye, and his mane floating in the breeze, and a pair of elephant’s feet held firmly in his grasp, do not become alarmed and phone for the police. It is only the return of the baseball fever and will run its course by the time the snow flies.

AT IN A TRENCH.

How the Soldiers live in the Ditches ' Fro m Which the War Is Being Fotight. I wonder how many people have a mental picture of the trenches which is at all like the real thing. I have seen photographs of men standing in a trench behind a covering line of mangel wurzels, or was it beet-root?— : which are true enough, but hardly characteristic. No doubt many people imagine the trenches to be a regular and formidable series of earthworks which turn a whole valley into a sort of fortress. They have heard all sorts of elaborations which get mentioned in letters, not because they are peculiar. As a matter of fact, the surprising thing about the trenches is that, like everything else in this war, they make so little difference to the normal appearance of th© landscape until you get quite close to them. If an invisible wayfarer could walk past them during the day he might very easily get through without noticing anything peculiar unless an artillery bombardment happened to be going on. Rifle fire and attacks are nearly all at dawn, or dusk or night. He would have to be invisible, for any visible wayfarer near the trenches would, of course, be sniped. A few do make their way to and fro—orderlies with messages mostly, who creep along ditches and dash across exposed intervals. Every evening a little party of men and mules goes to a point as near as it dare to the battalion and takes shelter behind a house or a wall, whefre it is met by one or two men of each company to take the daily rations back to the trenches. Every evening;, too, the stretcherbearers make their way into the Dendies and remove the men who have been wounded during the dtfy. And every evening all these men are “sniped” at by the enemy as they go about their work. As you approach the trenches in the dusk the lack of

anything abnormal to whole aspect of thlngsvis, of course, even more deceptive than by day. And knowing as one does that one is within a few yards of two lines of men which extend from the sea coast to Switzerland, the blank appearance of everything is tinglingly suggestive. You are walking along an ordinary country road. You have just passed the house where the medical officer and his assistants have taken up their quarters and whence they pass on the wounded by Tnotors to the field ambulance, A couple of days ago he had a house farther up the road, but he was shelled out of it. You pass other houses—you are walking crouched in the ditch by this time. By day you would notice that many of these houses have holes in them and that there are patches of tiles wanting in the roof but by the evening light they look quite normal, except that the windows are lit up in none of them. Cattle and fowls wander about over the fields and across the road. They look quite normal, too, though in daylight you would see that the cows have not been milked and the fowls are starving. By day light, too, you might notice, here and there in a field a cow |,hat had been struck down by a shell and killed, dr another—-poor beast—that had been merely wounded. It was to. put such a one out of its pain that an officer of ours crept out of his trench the other morning and was killed as he crawled back. A little further still you may at last come upon the trenches themselves at a point where they chance to touch the road. The reserve trenches these will probably be, and they have perhaps just been lined by a battalion that has marched out to be in support during the night in expectation of an attack and will march back before sunrise in the morning. They are, maybe, an Indian cavalry regiment, which has never yet had a chance of fighting on horseback and can contribute only in this way to the defense. From your ditch by the roadside will probably be a communicating trench to the first of these reserve trenches, and from., here, if the entrenchments have been in existence for some time, you will find yourself at the beginning of a whole rabbit warren. From here you will be able to get to every point, not only in the reserve trenches, but the fire’trenches, too, without ever putting your head above the ground. Walking in slush (here and there modified by straw or bricks thrown down, rubbing clay onto your shoulders from either wall of the narrow’ passage, you may pass along a whole serieis of reserve trenches, which seem to be deserted, unless you lift up one of the pieces of canvas fixed against the wall and see a silent Indian cavalryman curled up in his little niche. It will be for many reasons tortuous way before you arrive at the fire trenches or at the Colonel’s little "dug-out.” - First of all, because the communicating trenches are planned in every sort of zigzag and &url and twist, to be as little as possible end-on to the enemy and so enfiladed.

The Colonel's headquarters, for instance, is entered from the back, and approached by a trench which twists around behind it. Moreover, the line of the fire trencher is broken at intervals by traverses—also to protect against possible enfilading—and connected by little semicircular trenches which skirt around the solid interval of earth. The way wilj be tortuous for other reasons. The whole line of the two armies is tortuous beyond the suspicions of a reader who sees it twist a little along the frontier, but suppose it will be straight enough for half a mile. Losses here and gains there are partly a cause of this, but much more is the ' fact' that the whole series of trenches is developed from a skillful use of natural conditions. Sometimes the trench is merely a ditch which has been deepened. At other times the adaptation of a pit or a hollow makes it 10 feet deep, and the men have to climb up on ledges to fire out of it. Here and there the connecting trench becomes a tunnel, by having been roofed in. At other places a convenient bush or hedge affords cover which has enabled quite a little cavern to be dug under its protection. Though the hardship is severe enough, the men manage to make themselves more comfortable than might be supposed. They have charcoal braziers, which help to keep them warm, and there is even electric light. The adjutant has made quite a little office of his "dugout, and pins up notes and orders and telegrams onto the clay wall in front of him. When the trenches have been in existence long enough there is communication everywhere, though it is often difficult to squeeze by, and as for sleep—well, you can take a little of that as soon as the shelling starts, for you know there will not be an attack till that is over! The only thing you can hardly anywhere do is to stand up. If you try it "ping” almost at once, and

you are lucky if you only get your face spluttered with mud. And just out there—somewhere only 50 yards away—they are taking the same precautions abput all of us, and peeping with, the same curiosity. And between the lines is 50 yards of ordinary field, where no one dare venture by day, and only at imminent danger at night. In that 50 yards is now lying one of our officers, killed in last night’s attack’ Tonight we hope to get him back, but today we can but peep at him. His hand is hanging down, and on his wrist is his watch. It is still going, and from where we are we can see the time.—Manchester Guardian.

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_ . FOR SALE For Sale—Southeast Missouri lands where they get two crops from the same land in the same year. Corn from 40 to 90 bushels. Wheat from 18 tJ 45 bushels, followed by a crop of cow peas which makes from $25 ,to $35. Alfalfa makes from 4 to 6 cuttings and pays from SSO to SBS per acre. Cow peas are sowed in cornfield last cultivation and will produce as much hog fifth as an acre of corn. Go there and see if we have told the truth; if we have not we will pay your round-trip railroad fare, which is $7.96 one way from Rensselaer. Unimproved lands can be bought from $25 to S4O; partly improved from S4O to SSO; improved from SSO up, according to location and improvements. Terms: Onethird down, balance on time at 6 per cent. Charleston is the county seat of Mississippi county, Mossouri, and is situated in the heart of the finest farming country in the world. Charleston has three railroad connections and ten trains daily. Mississippi county comprises 265,000 acres of fine black alluvial soil which grows in abundance corn, wheat, alfalfa, clover hay and in fact all kinds of farm products. It is a city of beautiful homes, churches (all denominations) and is not surpassed by any city of like size in the state for general neatness and an attractive appearance. It has a population of 4,500; has great thrift and enterprise. Three newspapers, three banks, large flouring mills and wooden ware enterprises. The farm products marketed in Charleston reach very large proportions and the general merchantile business would be a credit to any city twice its size. The population is growing steadily and substantially. Most of the inhabitants own their own homes. They have excellent schools. There are no saloons. They have the finest water. A healthful climate the whole year round. Mississippi county corn exports, 1,500,000 bushels. Mississippi county wheat exports, 1,100,000 bushels.—JOHN O’CONNOR, ex-sheriff of Jasper county, L. B. 475., Rensselaer, Ind.

for Sale—Good timothy hay. « See C. H. PORTER or phone 13b. For Sale—Good timothy hay.— RILEY TULLIS, phone 927-E. For Sale—New swinging typewriter table.—Phone 13. For Sale—Some Red Clover Seed. - —WM. MARKIN, Parr, R-l. For Sale—9-year-old gelding, wt. 1 200, sound, priced right if taken at once.—Enquire Democrat office. Por Sale—2,ooo white oak posts, fJ-00 per hundred.— RANDOLPH M RIGHT, Rensselaer, R-R-3, phone Mt. Ayr, 54-C. t s

For Sale—Full blood Shorthorn bull coming 3-year-old, elegible to register.—Write or telephone GEO. ■PUTT, 212-J, Goodland, Ind. For Sale—l 4-year-old mare, wt. 1200; 1 good work mare, wt. 1500; some hay in mow.—REUBEN C. YEOMAN, Rensselaer, R-3, phone 20-M, Mt. Ayr. For Sale—2 lots, good house, barn, wood and coal house, chicken house and park, good well, and cistern, all kinds of fruit, cheap for le —Enquire at HEMPHILL BROS. S BLACKSMITH SHOP. I 1 or Sale—Two bushels of good, Juan/uh, clover seed.—JOHN 930^D NLAUB ’ Rensselaer > phone ivn«°o Sale ~Seed oats of the "Silver Mme variety.—o. c. HALSTEAD, R-3, Rensselaer, Ind. ■ - m-25 For Sale—Reed’s Yellow Dent ed ,, c ° rn ~-CHARLES SPANGLE, Kentland, Ind. m-28

K Build Your Silo % j > Once Only B ■ Eliminate all chances of blow-downs, de- ■ ■ cay and destruction by fire. Do away I g oP aint >ngr, adjustments and repairs. I ■ Hl!? “ r Permanency, or in other words I ■ build economically. Plan now to erect a I NATCO ■ IMPERISHABLE SILoI ■ TAe Silo That Lasts for Generations’ ’ ■ ■ Made of vitrified hollow clay tile which will en- ■ ■ dure forever, and reinforced by steel bands held ■ ■ in the mortar between each tier of tile. It is V ■ windproof, decayproof, verminproof and fire- ■ ■ proof. The Natco is the best silage preserver K known, for the vitrified hollow clay tile are impervious to air and moisture,and prevent B freezing. Attractive and convenient. H W FOR SALE BY g IDE. HARRINGTON I . Kniman, Ind. I Illustrated . Catalog Call and Free examine ’ - the tUe.

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For Sale—For rest of season 14 large white eggs for sl, from my full blood Blue Andalusian hens, classed among the world’s heaviest layers.—MßS. J. W. KING, phone 13 2. For Sale—lmported French cornet, silver satin finish, in fine condition. Will be sold for almost half its original cost a few months ago.— Call at Democrat office and see instrument. ts . For Sale—6 room 2-story frame house, well finished, 3 rooms above and 4 below, including pantry, and other conveniences, 4 closets, 17 large windows and 2 larger windows, including one bay window in front; front porch, etc.; on concrete foundation with cellar. Is conveniently located and ten lots go with place. No incumbrance. Good well of water; will give immediate possession. Cheap as dirt for quick sale at SSOO cash down or S6OO with S2OO down, S2OO, 6 months, S2OO, •12 months a t 8 per cent interest. Mortgage security or bankable note. Don’t write but call on MARTHA J. DICKINSON, Fair Oaks, Ind., Box 56. For Sale—lo 7 acre farm in Otsego county, N. Y.; 8 acres maple, beach and hemlock timber, including sugar grove, balance in good state of cultivation; good living springs in pasture lots, good weir of water at house, land is gently rolling but not hilly and is easy to work. House recently remodeled, and practically good as new; 2 large barns in fair condition, and other outbuildings; farm well fenced, wire fencing; on R. F. D., and telephone. New evaporator and sap buckets goes with farm, all for $2,100. Reason for selling, poor health* and too old to farm.—Address L. J. SHELLAND, Worcester, Otsego county, N. Y.

WANTED Wanted— Mare 3 or 7 years old, weight 1600 or more, must be absolutely sound and good worker; black preferred.—FßANClS T. HILTON, Gifford, Ind. Wanted— To borrow $4,000 on good real estate security on 5-year loan; will pay 6 per cent Interest, semi-annually if desired.—Enquire at The Democrat office. MISCELLANEOUS Storage Room—Storage room for ' household goods, etc., on third floor of The Democrat building. Prices reasonable.—F. E. BABCOCK. Painting Wanted—l am again prepared to do painting either by jon ■ or day, and in town or country. > Have my own means of conveyance. - C. M. BLUE, Box 304, Rensselaer - a-6 Auto Livery—“Frenchy” Deschand . A new car purchased’ any ere at an y time.

FINANCIAL Mutual Insurance —Fire and lightning. Also state cyclone. Inquire of M. I. Adams, phone 533-L. Farm Loans— l can procure you a nve-year loan on your farm at a low rate of interest. See me before placing your loan. Office, west side public square.—P. R. BLUE. Farm Loans—Money to loan on •Y/ n nnA r ° Perty 111 aDy l ” 1 “■ BP tO SIO,OOO.—E. P. HONAN. * Farm Loans— l am making farm loans at the lowest rates of internet. y F,V l° aß3 without commission and without delay.—JOHN A. DUNI flftl Ihfil Wlthout 111 I I ill Wlthout CommlM'oi, I Uul 111 U Charges for H Making or Recording Instruments. W. H. PARKINBOK Calling cards, the correct sizes, both plain and linen finish, constantly in stock in The Democrat’s fancy stationery department.